Access to the computer monitor

I have several people who live in my house and am looking for a way to tell if my computer has been consulted at any time that I'm not in the House.  Like when I get home from work for example.

If you're concerned only standard user accounts, you can implement Parental control with reports and audit to see what has happened with each account. http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95139-parental-controls-setup-use.html.

Unfortunately, if they are a s Adminitrator account, they can cancel the Parental control settings (and these controls do not work on administrators in any case) and there is not a lot you can do about it except to use a password and change from time to time.

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Things to check to see if someone has used your computer:

Go to C:\Users\\Recent for each account and add a column (by right-clicking on the hearder and clicking more) called access Date and sort the folder in this column and see if the most recently accessed files were by you if you don't recognize some of them - while they have been consulted so that you weren't there (somehow).

Go to Internet Explorer and click on the Favorites button to the left on the toolbar that displays the tabs of the opened page and then click on the history button and see where this user is that day. If they have places you visit, then anyone else on the internet in this account.  Unfortunately, as with recent items, you must verify each account that information is stored separately (in fact, if you implement strong parental control, you can count on these reports for standard users and everything you need to check are administrator accounts).

Go to start / Control Panel / administrative tools / event handler and see what are the events occurred while you were not.  If there are events involving the access or opening files, networks, or other things that you did not and should not be done while the computer was off, then someone in the less active on the computer.  You can't easily tell what they did with it from here, but you can identify certain activities (and the fact that she was turned on may be enough evidence to find someone to confess).

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What you really need to do is Add a startup password, which allows anyone access to any account or same boot without first entering the startup password.  If someone figures out, they can get past but it is difficult to do and it's another layer of protection.  http://www.ehow.com/how_2158738_add-power-password-computer.html.  It's not a guarantee, but it is a safety.

It is guaranteed real means can't do that because there is too much way around surveillance or blocks.  What are the best options I can suggest.  There may be 3 third-party programs that do a better job, but they can also be circumvented, and I guess that there is a limit to how well take something like that.  If you're really worried about access to your data, get an external hard drive and move all your data on that drive and take it with you to work.  Then all they can do is use the computer (if they can cross the extra security, I have proposed) but your privacy will be protected.

I hope this helps.

Good luck!

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